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Gypsy scholars, migrant teachers and the global academic proletariat : adjunct labour in higher education /

Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This book takes stock of this new development, concentrating primarily on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Teeuwen, Rudolphus, Hantke, Steffen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This book takes stock of this new development, concentrating primarily on the situation in the humanities. It looks at its impact on the lives of the highly-educated scholars and teachers from many parts of the world; scholars waking up to the sobering fact that higher education presents them with a two-tiered labour market in which they themselves are permanently barred from.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781435612167
1435612167
9789401205207
9401205205